乘着风，我走的比云更远 ，比山更高。Riding the wind, I go further than clouds, higher than mountains.

Accountability of AI Under the Law

The ubiquity of systems using artificial intelligence or “AI” has brought increasing attention to how those systems should be regulated. The choice of how to regulate AI systems will require care. AI systems have the potential to synthesize large amounts of data, allowing for greater levels of personalization and precision than ever before—applications range from clinical decision support to autonomous driving and predictive policing. That said, there exist legitimate concerns about the intentional and unintentional negative consequences of AI systems. There are many ways to hold AI systems accountable. In this work, we focus on one: explanation. Questions about a legal right to explanation from AI systems was recently debated in the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and thus thinking carefully about when and how explanation from AI systems might improve accountability is timely. In this work, we review contexts in which explanation is currently required under the law, and then list the technical considerations that must be considered if we desired AI systems that could provide kinds of explanations that are currently required of humans.

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About me

I am a researcher in the field of computational social science, using online data to question various social issues.

By dumping and parsing Wikipedia datasets in different languages, I apply the methods of data mining and data visualization to explore the collective research project ‘Mapping a World in Wikipedia’ in an interdisciplinary laboratory at the EPFL.

Aside from research work, I am a street photographer and swing dancer.